Time and Belonging. Six portraits from the documenta city of Kassel

The dissertation project focuses on Kassel's relationship to documenta. It is based on Kassel's assertion of identity as a documenta city and explores the question of how urban affiliations are conveyed, shifted and occluded in Kassel through the documenta. It thus follows the trail of Kassel's official self-declaration as a documenta city and aims to find out how this self-declaration is taken up and lived by the local people. The empirical material of the work consists of interviews with people in Kassel who talk about their personal history with documenta. What role does the official urban identity anchor documenta play in their affiliation with Kassel?